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The last issue of the catalogue shows a record of 244 boys and 317 girls. Of that number 233 are boarders, 328 day pupils.

The number of States represented is eleven; the total number of pupils is 561. The number of teachers and officers is thirty.

There are 235 graduates from the college and normal courses, nearly all of whom, together with hundreds of post undergraduates, are engaged in teaching and other useful work in Georgia and surrounding States.

The real estate, together with the library of 7,000 volumes, apparatus and other equipments, are valued at not less than a quarter of a million dollars.

In former years it has received aid from the Freedman's Bureau, the Slater Fund, the American Missionary Association, together with an annual appropriation of $8,000 from the State of Georgia. But now it stands, as it were, in its own strength, with bright